EP2539619B1 - Verbindungsvorrichtung zum verbinden eines flexiblen gebindes mit einem flansch oder einem anschlussring - Google Patents

Verbindungsvorrichtung zum verbinden eines flexiblen gebindes mit einem flansch oder einem anschlussring Download PDF

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EP2539619B1
EP2539619B1 EP11705445.2A EP11705445A EP2539619B1 EP 2539619 B1 EP2539619 B1 EP 2539619B1 EP 11705445 A EP11705445 A EP 11705445A EP 2539619 B1 EP2539619 B1 EP 2539619B1
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Günter Untch
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L23/00—Flanged joints
    • F16L23/02—Flanged joints the flanges being connected by members tensioned axially
    • F16L23/024—Flanged joints the flanges being connected by members tensioned axially characterised by how the flanges are joined to, or form an extension of, the pipes
    • F16L23/028—Flanged joints the flanges being connected by members tensioned axially characterised by how the flanges are joined to, or form an extension of, the pipes the flanges being held against a shoulder
    • F16L23/0286—Flanged joints the flanges being connected by members tensioned axially characterised by how the flanges are joined to, or form an extension of, the pipes the flanges being held against a shoulder the shoulder not being formed from the pipe
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L23/00—Flanged joints
    • F16L23/04—Flanged joints the flanges being connected by members tensioned in the radial plane
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L33/00—Arrangements for connecting hoses to rigid members; Rigid hose connectors, i.e. single members engaging both hoses
    • F16L33/28—Arrangements for connecting hoses to rigid members; Rigid hose connectors, i.e. single members engaging both hoses for hoses with one end terminating in a radial flange or collar
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/16—Large containers flexible
    • B65D88/1612—Flexible intermediate bulk containers [FIBC]
    • B65D88/1668—Flexible intermediate bulk containers [FIBC] closures for top or bottom openings

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  • the invention relates to a connection device with a flexible container for connecting the container with a flange or a connection ring.
  • the flexible container is clamped between at least two elements. Clamping is supported by auxiliary means, for example by a circumferential clamping ring, which embraces the elements together.
  • the problem underlying the invention is to design the connecting device for connecting a flexible container with a flange or a connecting ring with as few elements as possible, the few elements combine several functions and should be produced as inexpensively.
  • an environmentally sealed connection with the simplest possible and few to be used in the device sealing elements to be executed.
  • a generic connection device is suitable for connecting a flexible container with a flange or a connection ring.
  • the connecting device has an outer ring, which has a connection side radially inwardly facing an inner surface and the flange or the connection ring, and an inner ring which has an outer surface radially outward.
  • an end portion of the container is everted.
  • the outer surface and the inner surface are at least partially congruent with each other, so that the end portion is clamped to reach a connecting position between the outer ring and the inner ring.
  • the inner ring can be inserted into the outer ring from the connection side and, in the connecting position of the connection side, is remote from the outer ring.
  • the outer ring has radially inside a completely circumferential, radially inwardly open receiving groove with a round cross-section.
  • the inner ring is formed in one piece and in a region of the outer surface with a round cross section.
  • the inner ring consists of a single material so flexible that the inner ring can snap into the receiving groove to reach the connecting position.
  • a connecting ring another ring identical to the outer ring can be connected to the outer ring.
  • no further elements are required, which would be arranged approximately between the outer ring and the connecting ring.
  • the inclusion of the container is completely guaranteed only with the inner ring and the outer ring, so that such a direct connection with the connection ring is made possible. Thereby the functions become the safe holding of the container and the environmentally sealed seal by the two interacting rings adopted.
  • the flexible material ensures sufficient clamping of the inner ring in the outer ring.
  • the flexibility is needed on the one hand when inserting.
  • the inner ring must be smaller in order to be able to be inserted into the receiving groove over an inner diameter of the outer ring on the connection side.
  • the flexibility for sealing the rings against the container is preferably exploited.
  • a radially outermost outer diameter of the inner ring is larger than a radially outermost inner diameter of the outer ring.
  • one of a plurality of elevations in the cross section of the groove or the inner ring may also have the excess.
  • the inner ring can be used without further aids with the described oversize in the inner ring.
  • a flexible container wrapped around the inner ring is squeezed without any additional aids over an arcuate portion of the outer surface between the rings, so that it comes to an environmentally sealed connection between the rings and the flexible container.
  • one of the rings may have an at least partially circumferential elevation, so that the corresponding ring, viewed in the direction of flow, does not terminate at one level with the other ring without elevation. Strained against a common flange move in a succession so formed rings in the flow direction against each other, so that the desired seal is improved by increased pressure of the ring with the elevation relative to the common flange.
  • connection device is easy to assemble and disassemble, excluding any misassembly possibility.
  • the rings fit together without Drehorientierung only in a designated orientation to each other. For the inner ring no positional orientation is necessary.
  • the outer ring consists of a single part.
  • the inner ring is supported in a snap position in the axial direction on both sides in the receiving groove.
  • the outer ring is formed on the connection side with an inner diameter which is smaller than the outer diameter of the inner ring.
  • the receiving groove is designed such that it in accordance with a dial of a clock the round cross-section of the inner ring in the snap position of about 7 to 1 o'clock or opposite from 11 to 5 clock surrounds.
  • the outer ring and / or the inner ring on the respective connection side on a circumferential sealing lip are also assumes a centering function relative to the flange or the connecting ring, regardless of whether a sealing function is to be taken over by the survey or not.
  • the outer ring and / or the inner ring facing the flange in the axial direction on a circumferential groove for receiving a seal.
  • An environmentally sealed sealing of the container to the flange or to the connecting ring is thus advantageously ensured via a clamping of the container between the inner ring or the outer ring or both rings and the flange or the connecting ring, wherein the seal or the sealing lip preferably from a hard, however elastic plastic, in particular with a hardness of about 80 Shore A.
  • FIGS. 1 to 6 illustrate connecting devices according to the invention in 3 embodiments.
  • the connecting device connects a flexible container 1 with a flange or a connecting ring 3.
  • the connecting device has as a radially outer element an always radially outside of the container 1 arranged outer ring 10, 10 ', 10' '.
  • the outer ring 10, 10 ', 10' ' has radially inside the container 1 facing an inner surface.
  • the outer ring 10, 10 ', 10' ' has a connection side 18.
  • the connecting device has an inner ring 20, 20 ', 20''on the outside radially has an outer surface, around which an end portion 2 of the container 1 umstülpbar is.
  • the container 1 around the respective inner ring 20, 20 ', 20''everted turned inside out.
  • the outer surface and the inner surface are congruent to each other.
  • the end portion 2 is in accordance with Figures 2 and 4 to 6 between the outer ring 10, 10 ', 10''and the inner ring 20, 20', 20 '' clamped after the inner ring 20, 20 ', 20''in the outer ring 10, 10', 10 '' is snapped.
  • Snap-in here means the introduction of the inner ring into the outer ring, wherein the inner ring secures itself due to its flexibility in the outer ring.
  • an inventive receiving groove 15, 15 ', 15'' is formed for the inner ring in the outer ring.
  • the inner ring 20, 20 ', 20' ' is inserted from the connection side 18 into the outer ring 10, 10', 10 ''. If it is used, it firstly supports the connection side 18 turned away in the receiving groove 15, 15 ', 15' 'from.
  • the radially inwardly completely encircling, radially inwardly open receiving groove 15, 15 ', 15' 'with a round cross-section supports the inner ring 20, 20', 20 '' secondly the connection side facing 18 from.
  • the inner ring 20, 20 ', 20' ' is formed in one piece and in a region of the outer surface with a round cross section. It consists of a single material so flexible that it can snap into the receiving groove 15, 15 ', 15 "in order to reach the connecting position, after it has moved over a narrow inner diameter 19 of the outer ring 10, 10', 10" on the connection side 18 has been.
  • an excess of the inner ring 10, 10 ', 10''relative to the receiving groove 15, 15', 15 '' executed or not.
  • the first embodiment of the Figures 1 and 2 has a radially inner flattened inner ring 20 with an otherwise circular cross section and an outer ring 10 with a sealing lip 14.
  • the sealing lip 14 facing the flange or the connecting ring circumferentially formed on the outer ring 10.
  • the second embodiment of the FIGS. 3, 4 and 6 has a radially inner flattened inner ring 20 ', the terminal ring 3' facing a trained as a circumferential survey nose 24 'has.
  • the third embodiment of FIG. 5 has a very simple running inner ring 20 '' with a completely circular cross section.
  • the outer ring 10 '' carries the connection ring 3 '' facing circumferentially a sealing lip 14 ''.
  • the various embodiments show different outer rings 10, 10 ', 10'', which may be integrally formed.
  • the illustrated sealing lips 14, 14 may be formed thereon or as a separate sealing ring in a circumferential groove which is open towards the connecting ring 3" in the axial direction. on the connection side 18 in the outer ring 10, 10 '' are inserted.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Closures For Containers (AREA)
  • Gasket Seals (AREA)
  • Flanged Joints, Insulating Joints, And Other Joints (AREA)
  • Quick-Acting Or Multi-Walled Pipe Joints (AREA)
  • Stackable Containers (AREA)
EP11705445.2A 2010-02-24 2011-02-11 Verbindungsvorrichtung zum verbinden eines flexiblen gebindes mit einem flansch oder einem anschlussring Active EP2539619B1 (de)

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ES2554242T3 (es) 2015-12-17
US20130038054A1 (en) 2013-02-14
DE102010009179A1 (de) 2011-08-25
WO2011103965A1 (de) 2011-09-01
US8720955B2 (en) 2014-05-13
PL2539619T3 (pl) 2016-03-31
DK2539619T3 (en) 2016-01-11
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PT2539619E (pt) 2016-02-04
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